Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/9] xen: make sure swiotlb allocation isphysically contigious

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>]

Jan Beulich wrote:
> As pointed out before, you must not use alloc_bootmem_low...() here,
> as on large systems you may otherwise get an allocation failure (i.e. a
> panic - checking the return value is pointless). The alternative is to fix
> the bootmem allocator to no longer allocate from bottom up.
I was going to do that as a separate change so it can be argued on its 
own merits (though now that the allocation is happening in purely Xen 
code, that's less of an issue).
   J

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel